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From ames!ptsfa!ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!majka Tue Aug 4 18:22:08 PDT 1987
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Article 921 of comp.misc:
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Path: ames!ptsfa!ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision!majka
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>From: majka@ubc-vision.UUCP (Marc Majka)
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Newsgroups: comp.misc
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Subject: Mnemonics
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Message-ID: <735@ubc-vision.UUCP>
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Date: 4 Aug 87 20:46:16 GMT
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Reply-To: majka@ubc-vision.UUCP (Marc Majka)
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Organization: UBC Computational Vision Lab, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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The recent discussion of resistor colour codes brings up the subject
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of mnemonics in general. A few years ago I made a request for mnemonics
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in net.jokes. Here is a collection of mnemonics, partly from responses
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to my request, partly from other sources. If you have any other interesting
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ones, please send them! My apologies to those who sent any of these to me
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originally: I have lost your names!
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Marc Majka
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King Phillip came over for good soup
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King Phillip come out for god sake
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King Phillip calmly ordered five greasy steaks
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Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species
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(Taxononic classification)
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Toronto girls can flirt and only quit to chase dwarves.
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Talc Gypsum Calcite Flurite Appetite Orthoclase Quartz Topaz
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Corumdum Diamond
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(Hardness scale 1-10 for minerals)
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Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle
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Reading from left to right, it tells you the order in which
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sharps occur in major scales. That is, the scale with one sharp
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has F sharp, the scale with two sharps has F sharp and C sharp,
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and so on. Also, the name of the scale is the note immediately
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following its last sharp in the list. For example, the scale with
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four sharps -- F, C, G, and D -- si E major.
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Reading the sentence backwards
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Battle Ends And Down Goes Charles Father
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gives you the order in which flats occur in major scales. You can
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tell the name of the scale by using the list entry just to the
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left of the last flat, wrapping around if need be. For example,
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the scale with four flats -- B, E, A, and D -- is A-flat major.
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Oh, Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me Right Now Sweetheart
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Only Beer And Fine Grass Keep My Rattled Nerves Sane.
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OBAFGKMRNS (Star classes on a stellar evolution diagram)
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My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pickles
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Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto
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(Planets)
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Mother Very Thoughtfully Made A Jelly Sandwich Under No Protest
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Mercury Venus Terra Mars Asteroids Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto
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(Planets)
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All cows eat grass
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All cars eat gas
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ACEG (the staff space notes for bass clef from bottom to top)
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Every Good Bird Does Fly
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Every good boy does fine
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Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge
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EGBDF (the line notes for treble clef)
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King Hector died miserable death caught measles
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Kilometer Hectometer Decameter Meter Decimeter Centimeter Millimeter
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(Metric prefixes)
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Some old hen caught another hen taking one away
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S(in) = O(pposite)/H(ypotenuse)
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C(os) = A(djacent)/H(ypotenuse)
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T(an) = O(pposite)/A(djacent)
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(Trigonometric equations)
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Bad boys rape our young girls but Violet gives willingly - get
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some now.
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black brown red orange yellow green blue violet grey white gold
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silver none
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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 5% 10% 20%
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(Resistor colour codes)
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can dead men vote twice at elections.
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transformation from compass reading to true
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compass + deviation = magnetic;
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magnetic + variation = true;
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add east(ie subtract west)
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also in the other direction the slightly sexist.
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true virgins make dull companions
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which is
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true + variation = magnetic;
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magnetic + deviation = compass
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(and in this direction easterly variation and deviation is subtracted)
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Camels often sit down carefully. Perhaps their joints creak.
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Possibly early oiling might prevent premature rhumatism.
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Cambrian Ordovician Sirillian Devonian Carboniferous Permian
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Triassic Jurrasic Cretatious Paleocene Eocene Oligocene Myocene
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Pileocene Pleistocene Recent
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(Geolocical ages)
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Practically every old man plays poker regularly.
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Paleocene Eocene Oligocene Myocene Pileocene Pleistocene Recent
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(Geolocical ages)
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Roy G. Biv
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Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet
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(Rainbow colours in order)
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May I have a large container of coffee? ...
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How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy chapters
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involving quantum mechanics. One is, yes, adequate even enough
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to produce some fun and pleasure for an instant, miserably brief.
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Now I, even I, would celebrate
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In rhymes unapt, the great
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Immortal Syacusan, rivaled nevermore,
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Who in his wonderous lore,
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Passed on before,
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Left men his guidance
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How to circles mensurate.
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See, I have a rhyme assisting my feeble brain, its tasks oft-times
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resisting.
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pi = 3.1415926535897932384626433832795... (Word lengths are digits)
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Old people from Texas eat spiders
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Occipital parietal frontal temporal ephnoid sphenoid
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(Bones of the skull)
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Every Bible Gets Dusty After Easter
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E B G D A E (Standard guitar tuning)
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Prime Minister - a toad!
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Prophase Metaphase Anaphase Telophase
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(Stages in cell division)
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Oh my, such good apple pie, sweet as sugar.
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Oh my sagging gonads, aching, pulsating, sore as shit.
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oxalic, malonic, succinic, glutaric, adipic, pimelic, suberic,
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azelaic, sebacic
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((alpha, omega) dicaarboxylic acids from C2-C10.)
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Spring forward - Fall back
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Tells you how to adjust your clock for standard and daylight
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saving time.
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Lucy Can't Drink Milk
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LCDM - The Roman numerals in order for 50, 100, 500 and 1000.
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